Alan Murrin

Guilty pleasures that fail to satisfy: Cleanness, by Garth Greenwell, reviewed

A predatory American teacher is drawn to deeper and darker sexual experimentation in this disturbing novel set in Bulgaria

Garth Greenwell. Credit: Oriette D’Angelo
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  • Cleanness

    Garth Greenwell

    Picador, pp. 223, £14

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